In the Ten Stages by truly growing in our studies we face our vulnerability on a daily basis. Our existence reads like an open book. We know pain, insecurity, and loss of control. We live with fear, discomfort, and the constant need to self-examine, reassess, and take the risk of re-learning. The ideal for us, and for the best of our recovery, is to become comfortable in this state of dissatisfaction. The more we are vulnerable to the upwellings of the unconscious the more one comes to know this as healthy achieves a state of humility. This is not easy, but it holds the key to a satisfaction connected with the developing core of our core child within and the increasing resolution of one’s ancient traumas and one’s fantasies about reality. We who are in this state achieve a joy for the journey outweighing a focus on the destination, a pleasure more in the process of our recovery than the results. Of course, we love the results too, but our understanding of the study process allows us the patience to achieve so much more.
To be humble is to be open to learn. And to be open to learn is to be optimally open to being wrong. Us who can find satisfaction – and even pleasure – in being wrong have the world as our classroom, and there is nothing we cannot master.
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